Great news: ObamaCare website written by Belarus-linked programmers

posted at 12:01 pm on February 4, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

Don’t worry. I have it on good authority from a Nigerian prince and a friend who lost his wallet in Vladivostok that these guys were totally on the level:

U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans will be compromised.

The intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency in charge of the Healthcare.gov network, about their concerns last week. Specifically, officials warned that programmers in Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, were suspected of inserting malicious code that could be used for cyber attacks, according to U.S. officials familiar with the concerns.

The software links the millions of Americans who signed up for Obamacare to the federal government and more than 300 medical institutions and healthcare providers.

“The U.S. Affordable Care Act software was written in part in Belarus by software developers under state control, and that makes the software a potential target for cyber attacks,” one official said.

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Seriously though, what could possibly go wrong with letting foreign nationals build one of the most sensitive websites the government maintains? It’s as if critics don’t trust the Belarus government or something!

And if there is one or more viruses embedded in the code, or function calls to viruses living on a server somewhere else in the world, those viruses won’t be interested in the health of Americans (except for some personal data), you can bet those viruses will be winding their ways into much more lucrative government computers

The USA has been hacked by Obama and his formerly mysterious donors. That’s our reality today. It’s what Obama refers to as a “bone headed” deed, the ruination of US citizens’ personal information and just about everything else imaginable.

Is there *ANYthing* Obama has done that is legitimate, ethical, beneficial to the USA? Helloo, anyone?

I can remember when liberals were screeching about outsourcing. What say they about this?

Bitter Clinger on February 4, 2014 at 12:14 PM

It’s like the homeless. Not an issue except when Republicans are in charge. When Dems are running things, outsourcing is living in the reality of a global economy. Put a Republican back in charge and suddenly this is stealing jobs from American programmers-

Which begs the question just why American programmers were not used. It’s not like they’re all employed in the rat-eared bastard’s economy.

Will this finally get Sibelius fired, if not indicted for aiding and abetting foreign intelligence agencies?

jake49 on February 4, 2014 at 12:23 PM

No. She’ll have a statue of her raised across from the WH, Obama will give her some raving well-padded “retirement” placement, she’ll get to pick and chose her replacement when she floats on off to the DNC Traitor Folks Home.

Which begs the question just why American programmers were not used. It’s not like they’re all employed in the rat-eared bastard’s economy.

Happy Nomad on February 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM

Minimizing costs and maximizing profits for CGI Federal and the other companies tasked with building the website. As simple as that. And you are quite right re the double standard over outsourcing and the reality of globalization.

It’s not going to get any better with Accenture taking over from CGI. The majority of their development teams are not US based either – Far East primarily but I would not be surprised if they had some in Eastern Europe either.

It also makes one wonder just who and what is being done within the bloated IT departments of our federal agencies…or the procurement operations within those agencies.

I hate to say I told you so – because to any CompSci-type it is blatantly obvious and not some amazing forecast – but as I’ve said before, the Obamacare website system is guaranteed to be riddled with trojans and a diversity of other malware.

Some of it waiting to be triggered, others digging around and sending info back home as we speak. Belarus being in the top tier of their homes…

Seriously, it should be illegal for politicians to have anything to do with IT… Or anything else for that matter.

For the record, here’s another one we’re going to hear about in the future:

As the NSA is obtaining and storing CDR (call detail record) databases – the databases that are deleted periodically by the carriers themselves as standard operating procedure, the NSA can not only spy on our activities with those records, they can modify the data to become whatever ‘evidence’ their bosses want them to become.

There will be those who are found guilty because the data says they are guilty.

In other news, Ed Snowden has obtained a temporary work visa to Belarus, where his responsibilities include sending financial data concerning Obamacare enrollees to the KGB, so that Komrade Vlad can be more flexible with their bank accounts.

Wow. Even by Obama’s miserable track record of failure, this is a standout. Give all the personal information to the Russians. Doesn’t at all sound like a massive national security risk to me. Nope. Not at all.

so why did we have them write the code for the website again?? was nobody available in the united states? oh, wait they were probably trying to save money, because they were on a very strict budget for the website, right?

Until now, we didn’t realize that the subcontracts for programming went in part to a firm connected with a hostile regime. Belarus has remained a satellite to Moscow with a dictator in charge ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Alexander Lukashenko, and the regime is decidedly unfriendly to the West.

Well, that theory makes no sense. If they wanted to destroy us, they’d want to make sure Obamacare works as designed.